Born in the USA Quotes

“One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“...the total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“I also learned much about the profession, including the fact that in every other highly industrialized country, midwives are highly valued health care professionals.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“Many studies revealed startling truths about technology, such as that routine use of electronic fetal monitoring on every birthing woman does not lower the perinatal mortality rate, but sharply increases the rate of C-sections.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“If men wish to control their women, they must find a way to control midwives.”
― Marsden Wagner, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First